This Plugin Draws AUTOMATED BUILDING PLANS in SECONDS!

thank you [Music] all right hello hello hello you beautiful people as you can probably see from the screen uh the video title as well as the video thumbnail we're not really a clickbait we do have real-time generation of plans the question is are they any good so this is a website planfinder.xyz which basically gives you a possibility to download a plugin either for Rhino or for Revit and that plugin is used to generate plans this is the short condensed version of it so you can just kind of go to plan finder.xyz go to downloads and just download the installer for any platform that you wish I have it for Rhino and grasshopper so how much does it cost well for first 30 days it's free so you can kind of check it out oops you can check it out um and then afterwards is 50 euros a month which is a little bit on the expensive side but I mean I guess this video is going to be used to check if it's worth it or not so without any further Ado let's jump into the rhino uh Rhino screen and let's investigate so I do have the plugin already installed and once you do it it kind of gives you these five different icons here tools here and also also also there is a grasshopper plug in here a plan finder or grasshopper portion of the plugin so we can automate things and make the things a little bit more parametric first I will show you the Rhino version so all you need to do to make this work is just create um just just create a rectangle words create a rectangle starting from zero and I'm in millimeters I'll just do like seven thousand uh millimeter by five thousand millimeter rectangle so 35 square meters is that right that's right 35 square meters and having that rectangle selected I believe that's it that's all we need I will just click on fit plan so select the rectangle fit plan select entrance by segment or the boundary or a point so basically it asks us where the hell do we want an entrance to be to this apartment block I assume so let's see this segment right here and it generates a plan for me okay what if I don't like this plan well I can click on this little arrow here and generate another one and another one and another one and another one you get idea the further you go the less it fits right so it becomes a little bit on the messy side I believe we can make it fit a bit better if if we play around with downscaling and upscaling variations but be warned the lower you go with down scaling um the crap here the layout is going to be things will fit but the layout is going to be crappy so I suggest being close to one uh as close as possible to one and this is basically how many plans do you want to generate so you can you know you can generate can we make more 30 plans that's fine and then we just kind of go through them really quickly I have no idea what 3D does I assume it just gives you a 3D version of it now let's hit okay let's just see to perspective view yep the 3D version gives you an actual 3D model of your floor plan all um modeled out that's pretty neat I think so this is how it works right um there are limitations to this so let's fit it again fit select the segment here for the walls uh let's go to settings and turn off 3D let's go to um to this main filter box right here or menu and let's just go through the settings that we have here so you can uh change the amount of square meters for the living bedroom bathroom blah blah that's easy bathroom stuff uh how many baths do you want do you want to I guess with two it can't fit any of them okay at least one right um so if you try to get ask for two bathrooms in a very limited space such as 35 square meters is just not going to be able to generate it so let me actually make it a little bit wider just to show you that it actually works um let's give it like seven more meters in this direction I have no idea how many square meters this is right now but I'll just fit plan let's say entrance is here wait for it there we go oops that's the bedrooms that was my bed doesn't matter two bathrooms please and you can see that it tries its best to fit you know everything it within the square uh or rectangle sometimes it fails we can switch through different variations yeah you can see that it keeps on filling if we untick the restrictions it's going to be a little bit better uh but still you know it has its limitations so okay but it does work if I hit OK let's make sure that 3D is not set it's not if I hit OK it generates all of these layers for me and all of these layers you know the walls layer the hatch layer and so on everything is super clear right let me hide the Border here everything is super clean for students this should be you know a pretty pretty good thing not just for students for anyone who just wants to get the plans in really quickly and then do the rationalization of them rather than creating everything from scratch I think that's a this is a pretty good kickoff point and just an idea generator of how interior space can be planned out you know so you kind of go through different iterations you say this one but I will make a few adjustments and voila you have yourself a plan so all of this is neat and dandy and I really really like this um there are a few additional things that can help out if you're in a company such as um create Library button right here um but then the Great Library I should first explain so when you click on create Library button it should basically you should be able to feed in a library of your own um into the plan finder plugin and then your outlines or or the rectangles that you describe should generate from the library that you have already done so imagine you're a really large office and you have a lot of interns that can draw really fast and you just spend you know three months making them draw every possible plan and then you use those plans as your library that's it you know then then you have like semi-automatic plan generator that fits within your office Aesthetics or office way of planning um unfortunately when I press this it says please upgrade your license to use create library and then if I go to um right here to plants I can see that um where was it I guess it's under custom features right so you need the Enterprise um version of of this plugin for it to actually work and the the price is custom meaning that it depends on what kind of a business you are I guess or how how many additional features you need I don't know anyway it's a pretty expensive plugin but if you know if if time is short and you really need the plans to be generated you can always get the 30 month sorry 30 day free trial and generate the plans for yourself now the last thing to show is actually Jump Right In Here a grasshopper version I did this neat little very small little script that basically just takes a rectangle right it creates a rectangle nothing fancy and there's a sinus wave involved and a pie so you can imagine that the rectangle there's something going to happen in a fluctuating order you know with a rectangle and that's actually the sizes of the rectangle so the X size as I move the slider the X dimension of the rectangle fluctuates between 5 meters and 7 meters while the Y Dimension fluctuates between 10 meters and 5 meters so it kind of squeezes itself like that you know it changes its proportion nothing too crazy but then you can directly feed this rectangle into the plan fit tool that you get with the plugin and you describe the boundary which is the rectangle and just like we did it asks you where's the entrance I just gave it like one Edge to all this I basically exploded the rectangle and just gave it one edge of the rectangle just saying that just add it anywhere on that edge then where are the facades so I just said that all of the walls except let's take a look one second um which one was it so this is where the entrance is going to be placed and Bam this is going to be the facade wall so this is the only wall that will have Windows right uh then there are a few settings wall size interior wall thickness exterior wall thickness the down scaling so I use one so because I want it to fit as well as possible and that output is right here this is the the output that you get and you get the output in separate layers of course right so that's pretty neat and if I were to play around with the slider I can see that the whole thing updates really really well I mean it doesn't fit perfectly uh every time because my down scaling is set to one that means that it's never going to kind of squeeze things to make them fit better so I'm prioritizing the rationale of the plan over the how well it fits within the rectangle that I'm giving it but if I were to downscale to 0.8 and I'll play with this you can see that now it fits perfectly along my along my rectangle the initial rectangle that is right now in pink right that's how it works uh when you're at 0.8 down scaling you will end up getting these kind of CR this kind of crap happening so be careful with that um One Last Thing Before we end here is or two things one thing is if you have let's say that uh seven meters by seven meters and I just wanted to test out what happens if I just do this right if my let's go to top view if my plan in the top view looks like that and I try to fit and my entrance is here well you know it tries its best um and actually here it's pretty pretty good because it it was able to catch the alignment um but it still is trying to fit a rectangle right so if I break this even further like that fit entrance it it won't it won't so it can only deal with rectangular shapes right now which is okay which is understandable right so check out this plugin uh one more last thing is Finch Finch is um not a direct competitor to this uh to this plugin they are a little bit bigger and they're a little bit like a large team of entrepreneurs I actually on my first channel I I had Jesper who's the co-founder of Finch I do a podcast with me so if you're interested in that I'll leave a link in the video description um but Finch basically are doing exactly the same thing as what um forgot the name of the plugin plan finder uh what plan finder does but they are doing it better so um in my opinion it just has more functionality in terms of Finch you do need to request access and I mean it's it's very early stages of the product so you need to kind of get into um into the ecosystem kind of manually right emailing them asking them and so on but they're really great people and they they produce really really great results it's just that it's much easier for me to show you plan finder because you can just click download it and show it to the public that's why I'm doing that okay I hope this is helpful and I will see you in the next one peace thank you foreign

Channel: Geddan

Views: 168,295

Keywords: 3d modeling, rhino, 3d, cad, modeling, grasshopper, gh, blender, maya, houdini, unreal engine, game, architecture, gamedev, game development, tutorial, character, char design, hard, hard surface, hard-surface, blob, archviz, design, parametric, computation, subd, subdivision, parametricizm, parametricism, digital art, art, digital, resin, 3d print, print, figurine, miniature, planfinder, finch, ai, plans, planning, arch, auto, automatic, generator

Id: NCqkNM10lJU

Length: 15min 11sec (911 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 13 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/Bunsky]

I don't think I can optimize real estate better than a computer. If you're laying out a condo unit to fit a pro-forma, maximizing the number of sellable features and room dimensions without really delving deeply into the finished design, an algorithm can probably do that better than an architect - just like how algorithms are used to budget the development.

Architecture isn't all about optimizing space and ROI though, that's a tiny part. Usually a strong design requires some element of inefficiency - making rooms and spaces conform to an overall concept, or developing layouts around a specific occupant experience rather than just maximizing room sizes. These considerations are complex, and also case-specific, so it would be silly to automate each one. The types of jobs that require architects to act as designers, not computers, will still require architects for a while yet.

[u/NCGryffindog]

Looks like it's only applicable for things with simple programs... things you don't need an architect's stamp for in general. Even if they were better, im not super worried because the least of my time in a set is spent on the plan sheets. I'm sure automation will come for us, but it will be a while yet.

[u/Jaredlong]

My first job was doing houses for sub-division developers. They'd give me a spreadsheet of all the rooms and their attributes, and a base model to modify. The whole process was already soulless and thoughtless. Might as well fully automate it if we have the technology for it.

[u/Aldoogie]

Is this an Advert?

[u/Lazy-Jacket]

I would love a plan generator to spit out 100 plans at the push if a button and use them as inspiration to see what I can develop into a better layout.

[u/mynuname]

I think it will be a very useful tool. It will be a long time before AIs do a full set of drawings, but they can absolutely do programming legwork and spit out many options to get the process started. I feel like it is potentially a great solution to blank page syndrome.

After this, I think the next step for AI might be automatically checking for code compliance of several issues.

[u/seezed]

I don't think generating an finished plan is the goal for any professional firm. We use to generate plans based on set limitations regarding regulation and exterior factors to over see potential of building shapes. Not for residential but hotels and office hotels.

Usually most of it get tweaked to hell to fit design and specific needs.

Essentially a good starting point.

[u/VaderTower]

As with all technical advancements, it will be a tool that solves some problems but not all.

Just like autocad solved problems and sped us up, Revit came and solved more problems and sped us up. Likewise generative design will come and solve more problems. Give the program parameters, space size, needs, and related spaces and it will give you 100 iterations on how you can solve the problem. None will be perfect but it will give you ideas on the best way to solve the program. Use it or don't, but it will be a tool to have in your belt.

Some areas of our profession will use this more than others.